spence kinnear (3 resultados)

Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good -. 1st Editions. As originally issued in wrappers. Part 2 only of the total of 5 parts of Vol.20.p. 259-435. Includes 3 original coloured engraved and lithographed plates of Indian Birds (The Woodcock, Eastern Solitary Snipe,& Wood Snipe) - with plate guards still present - and some black and white plates, mostly of trees. Numerous articles covering many aspects of Indian Natural History including "The Game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon Part II, Common butterflies of the plains of India Part VIII, Ophidia and Tropidonotus from the Chin Hills, palms of India and Ceylon and etc. In dusty original wrapper with light damage to spines but tight and clean without marks or signatures.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. 35 Numbers of the journal, from 1913-25. Not a continuous run. About 200 pages each : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm. Condition ranges from Fair to Good. Some have stained or missing covers.

Condición: VG. Bombay 1914 Printed at the Times Press. 21 April 1913 through 10 July 1914 bound in one volume. Hardcover. Large octavo, 823p., 12 chromolithograph plates , 59 lithographed photograph plates, diagrams and maps, 54 woodcuts, cxxxiv, green cloth with gilt spine label. Many wonderful articles including: Common Indian Snakes, Palms of British India and Ceylon by Blatter, Termites from British India, A Fight Between a Jackal and an Imperial Eagel, Flying Squirrels, Teeth of Snails, Voracity of Vultures, Occurrence of the Emerald Dove, Butterflies (color plate), Effect of Castration on a Black Buck, Habits of the Painted Spur Fowl, Rare Snakes, etc. Modest bookplate of a Natural History Library inside front cover but no other ownership marks, no spine numbers, no stamps, no pocket. Nice association: tipped in is typed slip of paper reading "Presented by the father of Pilot Officer Patrick Claude Nangle RAAF, killed on active service Octobr 20th 1941." VG plus, slight wear to corners. Binding secure.